Customer Reviews

Relics and Omens (Dragonlance Tales of the Fifth Age, Vol. 1)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

R&O is a fine read for fans of the Dragonlance world. There are good stories and bad. Roger Moore rules as always with one of his gnome stories. Weis/Hickman disappoints me a little with a cliché-ridden story about Caramon helping a handicapped war-veteran. Jeff Grubb - who usually writes excellent stuff - disappoints a little as well with a thin story about a con man and an out-of-place demon. This said, R&O contains a lot of OK stories describing various lots in life in the fifth age. Moore for Emperor!

This collection of short stories has its moments. I'm a big fan of Weiss & Hickman - some of the other authors do an okay job of writing in the world of Krynn, but there's a certain loss with others, almost like it's a different place altogether. I would recommend this book for "easy reading" as the stories are none too deep or real "page turners" - not a bad book, but nothing to keep in my library.

I liked a lot of the stories in Relics and Omens, but what made me give it a four was that Zombie story near the end. However, the story about Caramon doing magic was very funny! I just wanted to say that this book is very descriptive about the new world of Krynn.

I thought this book was superbly written. Unlike some of the other reviewers I liked all the stories in this book. My favorites were The Notorious Booke of Starres and Peculiar Artifact. The Booke of Starres was just superbly written, and the peculiar artifact is one of the few stories that shows a kender as something other than a fool or comic relief.

Though I haven't read the entire book, I have read most of the stories in it. The reason that I didn't finish it is because some of the stories, like "A Most Peculiar Artifact" were either stupid or boring. Most of them, like "The Sword of Tears" and "Island of the Night", were really good.

This book was the first book from the DragonLance series and I was captivated by the stories within the book.The different stories offers something for everyone because if you do not like one story you can go to another I however, would not recommend this because they are all great stories.This book got me hooked on the series and soon after finishing it I bought 12 other volumes of DragonLance books.

this was an excellent boo